The Judicial Committee and the British North America ACT: An Analysis of the Interpretative Scheme for the Distribution of Legislative Powers

by G P Browne and G.P. Browne

This comprehensive study is concerned primarily with the fundamental problem of the role of the judiciary in the federal system of Canadian government. The author criticizes previous accounts of the Judicial Committee's interpretative scheme for the British North American Act because of their neglect of underlying jurisprudential assumptions and their readiness to accept the textual criticisms levelled in the O'Connor Report of 1939; they fail...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442651571
• ISBN13: 9781442651579
• Release Date: December 1967
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher